Archive of all analysis and features articles – Page 131
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10 products that tell the story of what we ate & drank in 2017
From free-range milk to pink gin and on-the-go breakfast pouches, here is our pick of 10 new product launches that sum up the key trends that shaped UK food & grocery in 2017
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Soft drinks: Carbonated & energy drinks: Coke back in growth as tax looms
The drought has ended for Britain’s (and the world’s) biggest soft drinks brand
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Soft drinks: bottled water booms while squash dives
Bottled water has been one of grocery’s star performers in recent years
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Christmas 33 basket reveals soaring cost of traditional fare
Our Christmas basket cost 1.14% more this year at £127.63 compared with £126.19 in 2016
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Personal care: Oral care: Brits splash out on pricier lines
If toothpaste and toothbrush makers are smiling about an extra £11.4m in sales, P&G will have the widest grins
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Oils: own-label oil beats brands as prices soar
Oils have seen another year of rampant price rises in the face of exchange rate fluctuations and supply shortages
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Ice cream: up £45m despite wet summer
A good summer has always translated into strong ice cream sales
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Frozen food: attitudes thaw as prices rise
At last, some good news! Much needed value is being driven into supermarket freezers
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Laundry: Persil hit by £35m loss as laundry slips
Laundry has been taken to the cleaners this past year, with the supers losing sales to online and discount channels
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Ready meals: sales soar on gourmet NPD
Convenience was king in 2017. Just look at the frozen, chilled and ambient ready meals sector’s combined growth of £117m
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Cheese: cheese gets squeezed as Cheddar falls
Life doesn’t get any easier for cheese brands. The whole category has experienced a contraction of space
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Household: discounters clean up
Own label is wiping the floor with brands in the household sector
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Cakes: brands turn to snacks as cake crumbles
Brits have munched their way through 10.6 million fewer packs of shop-bought cake in the past year
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Bread: brands go posh to see off inflation
At last, some of Britain’s bakers look poised to start making some decent dough again
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Cereals: brand prices rise as cereal slide slows
Britain is “hurtling towards a chaotic breakfast” declared shadow chancellor John McDonnell in October 2016
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Cosmetics: up £20m thanks to pricey NPD
L’Oréal has overtaken Max Factor as the third bestselling cosmetics brand
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Petcare: prices rise as owners seek posh petfood
A new phrase was coined in 2017: ‘pet parents’ – those who treat their ‘fur babies’ as if they were human
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Male grooming: Bulldog bites more off male moisturisers
Male grooming products are looking decidedly unkempt. The market’s major sectors have lost £7.8m
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Sauces: Table: Seriously good sales for Heinz in mayo boom
In the year sales of mayo overtook ketchup for the first time, there have been big changes at the edge of dinner plates
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Batteries: sales surge as kit goes hi-tech
Grocery battery sales have been electrified this past year thanks to the growth in specialist hi-tech electronics